Today's Supreme Court ruling upholding President Barack Obama's health care law will give the
president an advantage in the race for the White House, says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of
the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"You can hear the sigh of relief at the White House," said Brown. "The decision will certainly be a plus
for President Barack Obama's re-election because it allows the president's signature achievement to
stand. Since politics is the ultimate zero-sum game, what's good for Obama is bad for Gov. Mitt
Romney.

"The decision, however, will allow Romney to continuing campaigning against the law and promising
to repeal it."

A Quinnipiac University national survey April 20 showed 51 percent of American voters in favor
of Congress repealing the 2010 health care law. The Supreme Court should overturn the Affordable
Care Act, 49 percent of voters said, while 38 percent were in favor of the court upholding the law.
An April 19 Quinnipiac University poll found that U.S. voters viewed the two men equally on
handling health care.

Brown is available at (203) 535-6203 to discuss today's Supreme Court decision.